PROJECT MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 10

• Common techniques

• PERT- Program Evaluation and Review Technique

• CPM- Critical Path Method

• PDM- Precedence Diagramming Method

Network Principles

 Activities
 Represented by a box
 Consume time
 Described by verb

 Relationships
 Linked in serial sequence
 Complete concurrently

• Subdivide into more manageable components

- Deliverable is output of work package

- Resource requirements and durations can be assigned
- Accountability can be assigned
- Project manager can monitor and control
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Loop

• Illogical relationship among activities

• In preparing a network diagram, drawing activities in a loop is not acceptable because it

portrays a path of activities that perpetually repeats itself

Create Work Breakdown Structure

• Deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work scope into work

packages that produce the project deliverables.

• Create logical groupings

• Graphic chart or indentured list

• Common techniques
• PERT- Program Evaluation and Review Technique

• CPM- Critical Path Method